Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:13:12 +0200
Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For information: I'm still trying to find a sodimm card for this
machine, as everything would be easier if it had more memory.
We'll see how I manage that; here in Norway it is not so easy to find
things like that, and transport costs from the US are prohibitive for
a hobby budget.

I moved the harddisk into a more powerful machine,
installed FreeBSD there, build a lighter kernel and
put the disk back.

Are there any FAQ's arounf for things I can safely remove from a 6.1
kernel?

NFS mounting needed a work around:

I won't need NFS, so that's not a problem.

In your case it's probably easier to create a disk image
in Qemu, copy it to a CD and then use something that

Hmm, I'm not very familiar with Qemu. A quick web search didn't turn up
any obvious pointers on how to create a ISO image from a qemu image, or
how to make an ISO image from the (currently running) Qemu image.
Do you have any pointers to a HowTo for this?

boots from a floppy, supports the CD-Rom drive and brings
dd with it, to "install" the image.

Yes, this sounds like a good plan.
--
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

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